I wanted to update everyone just a few days into the transition from Movable Type to WordPress.
- The web based editor has been the hardest to get used to. I like some of the things it does but I absolutley hate that it will not single line space in visual mode. I have to switch it to HTML mode to get the editor to behave correctly.
- Commenting is way up. The piece of crap commenting authentication system MovableType has is simply horrible.
- Website traffic is noticeably up. Based on what we are seeing from Google the page updates have taken and this has resulted in better indexing thus traffic is up 25%
- I am still having challenges in external editors getting the tags to work correctly when posting externally. If someone has the secret sauce setting to Blogjet let me know.
So I guess you can say thus far I am a happy camper. I am watching to see if we get a bounce in pagerank for cleaning up the duplicate content that was on the old site, only time will tell there but if we get a bounce then I will be pretty pumped.
Try hitting shift + enter instead of just enter.
Having just done my first post under the new WP I found it a good experience as well. I was using the web portal on MT and the WP one is MUCH better.
Some of the imported stories seem to have gotten the wrong author. I have only looked back a little way, but all of mine seem to now be listed as Todd and I seem to have credit for Susabelle’s.
As a contributing editor, YAY on the new format! I’m still figuring out the posting stuff, couldn’t find the keywords or category sections the first couple of posts but I have that figured out now (not that I was ever any good at those before). I also love the new, easy commenting, it means more people can comment readily on content, rather than having to wait for approval after signing in to a site that refuses to be “remembered.” It was one of my big annoyances as well.
Thanks for the hard work on the new site, it rocks!